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                                                                                                                                                                                         1942 AD 

1942  Liam Cosgrave from Dublin, the son of William T. Cosgrave the former Cuman na nGaedhal Prime Minister of the Irish Free State, was to be the T.D. for Dublin in the Dail Eireann / Irish Assembly until 1981.   

     James Lyons, a Special Policeman was killed. - Anthony Deery, because of his total commitment to the cause of reuniting the 6 Counties, artificially partitioned from the 9 in the Ulster Province, had been acting as the radio operator for Captain Goertz the German agent, and his involvement in this was discovered and he was sentenced to 10 years imprisonment.

January 26th : 4,000 American troops were landed in the 6 Counties, artificially partitioned from the 9 in the Ulster Province by the British Imperial Government, and Eamonn de Valera the Prime Minister of Ireland was not consulted, by either America or Great Britain, before taking this decision, and he came out and once again claimed sovereignty over the whole of Ireland including the 6 Counties, there also, and that they had no official sanction to be there, and there would be no Americans in the in Eire Republic.

February: The German Embassy, sent a radio message on the weather conditions prevailing off the coast of Ireland to German shipping, which was picked up by the Irish Government Intelligence and they were then informed not to send anymore.

      The Irish Government decided to charge the 4 anti - Treaty IRA members involved in the previous murder of Michael Devereux, including the 2 witnesses who reneged, and of these 4 Michael Walsh, George Plant and Patrick Davern were sentenced to death for his murder.

February 28th: Guenther Schuetz, the German agent, made his escape from Mountjoy Prison in Dublin, and was later assisted by the O Hanlons, who contacted Caitlin Brugha on his behalf, and she organized for him to be billeted at Blackrock to the south of Dublin, then put him up at her own home at Rathmines. She informed him that Captain Hermann Goertz / Mr. Robinson the main German agent, had been arrested, an word was sent to the IRA in the 6 Counties artificially partitioned from the 9 in the Ulster Province of his whereabouts, and 3 of them came to see him, including Hugh Mac Ateer the new IRA Chief of Staff there.

March 17th: George Plant, was executed in the 6 Counties, artificially partitioned from the 9 in the Ulster Province still under the control of the British Imperial Government and the "official " Unionist Stormont Government.

March 25th: The IRA, at this time produced their own newspaper the "Republican News," and they were under the control of Hugh Mac Ateer their new Chief of Staff in the 6 Counties artificially partitioned from the 9 in the Ulster Province, Mac Namee in the Connacht Province, Sean Mac Cool in the Munster Province, and Frank Driver in the Leinster Province. They decided to conduct an IRA campaign in the Ulster Province to try and remove the British Imperial Government's partition of Ireland, but Mac Namee and Sean Mac Cool were arrested in Eire, where they were put in prison.

April 4th: The first policeman to be shot in 10 years was Thomas Forbes at Dungannon in Co. Tyrone in Central Southern Ulster, one of the 6 Counties artificially partitioned from the 9 there.

April 5th: Constable Patrick Murphy was shot dead. - 5 Royal Ulster constables and one "B Special" constable were also killed in Belfast in Co. Antrim in the north - east of the Ulster Province, another of the 6 Counties artificially partitioned from the 9 in the Ulster Province, while 3 of the IRA members were also killed, and 6 members of the IRA who were all under 19 years of age, were arrested and sentenced to death. 207,000 signatures were collected for a reprieve, and pressure was bought to bare from many sources, with the proposition that should 6 be killed for one, the Fianna Fail Government in the Eire Republic would not be able to control the people.

April 30th: A raid on Caitlin Brugha's home, looking for someone else, bought about the recapture of Guenther Schuetz the German agent, who was taken by surprise as he was preparing to leave Ireland to return to Germany, and in his possession they found documents relating to Stephen Hayes' confessions in German, and his connection with the other German agent, Captain Goertz  / Mr. Robinson, and he eventually ended up back in Mountjoy Jail.  Charles Mac Guinness and the 3 IRA members who were to act as his boat crew were also arrested on the same day.

June: Charles Mac Guinness, who acted as a reserve in the Irish Navy, who had been teed up to take Guenther Schuetz to France, received a term of  7 years imprisonment, and the 10 German agents held in prison by the Irish Government, were removed to Custom Barracks at Athlone in Co. Westmeath in the south- west of Northern Leinster.

September 1st: A large catch of IRA arms and ammunition was discovered at a farm house near Belfast in Co. Antrim in the north - east of the Ulster Province, and Winston Churchill the British Imperial National Coalition Prime Minister, said he would not stop the execution of Thomas Williams as requested by Eammon de Valera.

September 2nd: One of the 6 youths, Thomas Williams from the IRA's Belfast Brigade, who had been sentenced to death by the "Official" Unionist Stormont Government was hung at Belfast in Co. Antrim in the north - east of the Ulster Province, while the other 5 were reprieved, and the IRA members there went berserk.  

September 4th: Gerry O Callaghan, was shot dead by the R.U.C police, in the 6 Counties artificially partitioned from the 9 in the Ulster Province still under the control of the Stormont Government, which created demonstrations in Dublin in Eire, and 2 police were also then killed there in Co. Tyrone in  Central Southern Ulster followed by bombings and shootings, and a curfew was introduced.

September 9th: Det. Sgt. Denis O Brien was shot dead in Eire.

September 10th: The IRA's Northern Command under Hugh Mac Ateer their Chief of Staff, in the 6 Counties artificially partitioned from the 9 in the Ulster Province, was raided. 

November: Det. Officer Mordant, was killed in Dublin in Eire and Maurice O Neill was to be executed for it.

December 1st: Charles Kering, from Co. Kerry in the south - west of the Munster Province, was executed for the killing of Det. Sgt. Denis O Brien.

      Dr. John Charles Mac Quaid, became the Catholic Archbishop of Dublin and Primate of Ireland, who had just arrived back from living in Rome, and was to have a great influence on the Irish people for the next 31 years.

      In the 6 Counties artificially partitioned from the 9  in the Ulster Province, that were still under the control of the British Imperial Government and the "Official" Unionist Stormont Government, Sir Basil Brooke / Lord Brookeborough of Colebrook became their new Ascendancy Prime Minister there.

    Gerald O Donavan (1871 - 1942), who had been the priest at Loughrea in Co. Galway in Southern Connacht, died this year, who had worked with Edward Martyn and A.E. in the Irish Agricultural Society and left the priesthood.

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